The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-08-20

INTO INC ~ JUS Oh liutt lie Iu<Uf&Nf6
/ undertakes whose business Il Il 10
gather up the remains Of defnnct or
CARNATIONS and bury them In their Own
vault then. say. you had better get
out Of the business. and disgorge the
widows houses you have swal owed.
But my word 20 all those who are
legitimately engaged Ia the business:
You ought 10 be better than other
men, not only because Of the RESPONSE
] bilities that rest upon You. but because
the truth is ever confronting you that
your stay on earth Is uncertain, and
your life a matter Of Il few days or
years DO not those black edged let
ters that come into your office make
You thinkg Does not the doctors GER
tiiicate on the death claim give you
thrillg Your periodicals. your adver-
tisements. and even the photography of
your policies warn you that you are
mortalg According 10 your own show
ing the chances that You will die this
year are at least per cent Are you
prepared for the tremendous exigency?
The most condemned man in the
judgement day will be the unprepared
life insurance man, for the simple rea-
son that hts whole business was con-
nected with human exit, and ne can
not say:
II did not think"
His whole business was 10 think on
that one thing. oh, my brother, get
insured for eternity In consideration
of what Christ has done in your behalf,
have the indenture this day made out.
signed and sealed with the red seal of
the cross.
But have words of encouragement
and comfort for those OF my hearers
who are engaged In the fire insurance
business. You are ordained by God
to stand between us and the most rag
ing element of nature. We are indebt-
ed TO you for what the National Board
of Underwriters and the Convention of
Chiefs Of Fire Departments have ef-
fecied through your suggestions, and
through your encouragement. We are
indebted TO you for what you have eff
fected In the construction OF buildings,
and I'm the change in the habits of our
Cities so that by scientific principles
orderly companies extinguish the fire,
instead OF the old time riots which used
TO extinguish the citizens. And we
are indebted 10 you for the successful
demands you have made for the repeal
OF unjus laws-for the battle you have
waged against incendairism and arson
for the fatal blow you have given
20 the theory that corporations have no
souls, by the cheerfulness and promp-
tiiude with which you have met losses,
from which you might have escaped
through the technicalities of the law.
do not know any class of men in
our midst more heightened and worthy
of confidence than these men, and yet
have sometimes feared that while
your chief business is TO calculate
about losses on earthly property, you
might without sufficient thought go
into that which. in regard TO your soul,
in your own parlance might be called
hazards. extra hazards" especial
hazards" An unforgiyen sin in the
soul Is more innammable and explosive
than camphine or nitro giycerine.
However the rates may be-yea.
though the whole earth were paid
down TO you in one solid premium
you can not afford To lose your soul.
DO not take that risk, lest IL be said
hereafter that while in this world you
had keen business faculty, when you
went out Of the world you went out
eyerlastingly insolyent.
The scientific Hitchcocks and Gill
mans, and Mtchells of the world have
united with the sacred writer's TO make
rs believe that there Is coming con-
ilagration, 10 sweep across the earth,
compared with which that of Chicago
in 1871. and that OF Boston in 1872,
and that OF New York in 1885, were
mere nothings. Brooklyn ON fire
New York on fire Charleston on lire I
san Francisco on tire Canton on fire !
ST. Petersburg on fire Paris on fire !
London on fire the Andes on fire
the Apennines on fire the Himalaya
on fire What will be peculiar about
the day will be that the water with
which we put ont our great fires will
itself take tlame and the Mississippi,
and the Ohio. and the 81. Lawrence,
and Lake Erie, and me Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, and tumbling Niagara,
shall with red tongues lick the heavens.
The geological heats OF the center OF
the world will burn out toward the cir
cumference, and the heats of the out
side will burn down from the circum-
ference TO the center, and this world
Will become, not only according TO the
Bible. but according TO science, living